Interesting that the growth rate of technical alignment researchers seem to be a bit slower than capabilities researchers. Compare:
The exponential models describe a 24% annual growth rate in the number of technical AI safety organizations and 21% growth rate in the number of technical AI safety FTEs.
In 2021, OpenAI had about 300 employees; today, it has about 3,000. Anthropic and DeepMind have also grown more than 3x, and new companies have entered. The number of ML papers produced per year has roughly doubled every two years.
This suggests to me that the capabilities field is growing more like 30-40% per year.
In addition, governance seems to be growing even slower than technical safety, even in the last 3 years.
Interesting that the growth rate of technical alignment researchers seem to be a bit slower than capabilities researchers. Compare:
To the following taken from here:
This suggests to me that the capabilities field is growing more like 30-40% per year.
In addition, governance seems to be growing even slower than technical safety, even in the last 3 years.